by Louk Rademaker | Mar 8, 2024 | Past meetings
I will illustrate the paradigm of computational materials discovery, as applied to the case of two-dimensional and one-dimensional materials.First, a high-throughput study of experimentally-known inorganic compounds identifies promising candidates that could be...
by Louk Rademaker | Mar 8, 2024 | Past meetings
The bandstructure of naturally occurring Bernal bilayer graphene exhibits four linearly dispersed Dirac cones [1] but changes drastically when large electric displacement fields are applied across the two layers. Here, tunable van Hove singularities lead to the...
by Louk Rademaker | Mar 8, 2024 | Past meetings
Complex polarisation textures and emergent functionalities under geometric confinement Ferroelectric materials can host a wide range of unusual structural features, often linked to novel functional properties, potentially useful for nanoelectronics applications. At...
by Louk Rademaker | Feb 28, 2024 | Past meetings
You can download the slides here (PDF). Please register at the doodle before Thursday evening if you want to join for pizza! Location: Stuckelberg, Ecole de PhysiqueTime: Friday 19 April 2024, 12:10 for pizza, 12:30 start discussion
by Louk Rademaker | Feb 20, 2024 | Past meetings
In the context of “flat superconductors”, the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) theory is naturally involved in the discussion, even if only indirectly. BKT physics is in fact necessary to allow for the (quasi-)long-range-order, otherwise prohibited by...
